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Definition of Furbishers
1. furbisher [n] - See also: furbisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furbishers
Literary usage of Furbishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1905)
"Fur market in Hungary the Greater, I. 242 ; in Russia, 242 ; Persian Breton (1594)
x. 202. furbishers of armour ..."
2. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"... sb. a place or row of houses where furbishers of armour live. Reading. ...
от furbishers rew [row], or the place where the arms ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... on former days, given sedulous assistance in this new improved edition of his
house, and laboured faithfully among the other furnishers and furbishers. ..."
4. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"All armourers and furbishers work day and night. Tvi? ap pearance of war is great."
— I'aget to Henry VIII.: State Paper* V0I VIII. p. ..."
5. The Gilds and Companies of London by George Unwin (1908)
"... the Flemish weavers (1366), and the Fullers (1376) ; and besides these there
were the Hatters (1347), the furbishers (1350), and the Upholders (1360), ..."
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